Merciless display!

NEWTON, Singapore:

Jamaica's Sunshine Girls sent a strong warning to their quarter-final opponents Trinidad and Tobago with a merciless 93-40 victory over the host nation in their final Pool C match of the Mission Foods World Netball Champion-ships at the Singapore National Indoor Stadium yesterday.

The victory by the fourth-ranked Jamaicans was their third consecutive win of the championship. However, head coach Oberon Pitterson said although she was happy with their offensive play, there is some amount of work that needs to be done in the defensive third.

"I thought the attack went well, we were able to find the shooters very quickly and very easily," said Pitterson. "We struggled somewhat in the defensive area because we allowed a lot of goals, which I thought we could have done a much better job of - tightening up in the circle - but I am pretty much pleased with the performance."

Fowler chief destroyer

Goal shooter Jhaniele Fowler, starting in her first game of the championship, was the chief destroyer for the Sunshine Girls, as she netted 58 goals from 62 in three quarters.

Romelda Aiken, who replaced Fowler at the start of the third quarter, also had a superb shooting night when she netted 26 goals from 28 tries, as the Jamaicans led with respective quarterly scores of 23-11, 44-22 and 65-33.

"I am very pleased because we had set a target and we wanted to see how quickly we could get that ball into the circle," Pitterson said. "There are going to be times when we need to get a quick ball down into the circle and there are going to be times when we will have to work it around.

"I thought Sasher (Gaye Henry) did a pretty good job of getting the ball very quickly into the shooters and making herself available, but sometimes the passes into the circle were a little testy, but she redeemed herself."

Pitterson added: "Jodian (Ffrench-Kentish) came on in her first full game, she also did pretty good, but I would like to see her shoot some more."

The quarter-finals are set to begin tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Singapore's Austra-lian coach, Kate Carpenter, said she was very impressed with Jamaica's performance.

"Jamaica is very hard to contain and so a lot of the time they just lifted the ball into their shooters," she said. "I thought that they looked well organised, I know that they didn't run their top-line players and so I think that Jamaica has much more to come."